So we have the prices above from the 14th February, now some of the favs from the 14th Feb will not be running in those races, but if you have a look at the OLBG Mares Hurdle you can see that Limini was 9/2, now hovering around 1/1.

Sporting Index have a load of Cheltenham markets including the favourites market where they expect 8 winning favs.

The spread for the 4 Championship Races is 53-56, the 4 races are Champion Hurdle, World Hurdle, Champion Chase and Gold Cup.

The above figure "indicates" (but not guaranteed) that a max of 2 favs will win from the 4 championship races.

Going from 2005 to 2016, the SP of winners of the Neptune Novice Hurdle have been :- 17/2, 17/2, 20/1, 5/2f, 7/1, 7/1, 2/1f, 7/2, 6/4f, 9/2 & 3/1 - In the context of how tough Cheltenham is for punters, then this race has been pretty kind to the majority of punters with only 1 winner bigger than 17/2 in last 11 years, last 8 have all been 7/1 or under."

you can use the blog to see how many favourites have won the selected races over the last 12 years, hope it helps in some way.

So the total Staring prices of the winners of those 4 races they predict to be between around 30/1, so 1 if not 2 of those Championship race are going to have a possible double figure winner if you think Douvan wins the Queen Mother.

So if Douvan does win the QM at odds on then the other 3 Championship races will have a combined SP of 30/1.

Something to keep in mind especially if 1 of the first 3 in the betting win the Champion Hurdle and then Douvan wins the QM.

Last year the Sp was 10.75 so its shows what a big figure is on offer this year.